As animal behaviorists increasingly use AI in their research, they grapple with how to wield the technology responsibly

Geladas combine vocal−visual signals and tactile patterns to resolve conflicts. Reconciliation is rapid, mainly aggressor-initiated, and shaped by relationship value, risk, emotion, and audience cont...

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When I was a postdoctoral researcher, I spent several years teaching at an interdisciplinary research institute in Vienna, Austria. There, my main course sought to train master’s students—mostly biolo...

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Animal Cognition is an interdisciplinary journal offering current research on all aspects of animal (and human) cognition in an evolutionary ...

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Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

Age and early life adversity (ELA) are key determinants of health, but whether they affect similar physiological mechanisms across tissues is unknown. We generated DNA methylation (DNAm) profiles acro...

Experiments show 29 animals moved towards a treat-filled bucket 60% of the time when guided by a researcher

Bioacousticians are finding animal communication patterns once thought unique to humans — discoveries that challenge ideas about what makes human language special.